Path to Open Platforms - new chapter for the Turing Way

CW22 - 2022-04-04 Collaborative Ideas session group: G-Ginkgo Participants Sarah Gibson, 2i2c, sgibson@2i2c.org Arielle Bennett, The Alan Turing Institute Morane Gruenpeter, Software Heritage, morane@softwareheritage.org James Byrne, RSE @ British Antarctic Survey, jambyr@bas.ac.uk Mohamed Selim, Project Leader, EMBL-EBI, mselim@ebi.ac.uk Patricia Herterich, DCC, University of Edinburgh, p.herterich@ed.ac.uk Some ideas/challenges: Running open infrastructure requires skills that are really hard to learn and most PIs (senior people) do not understand/care about it Avoiding vendor lock in People don’t mind paying for this (but do they care if it’s open?...

2 min · 425 words · Sarah Gibson, Arielle Bennett, Morane Gruenpeter, James Byrne, Mohamed Selim, Patricia Herterich

RSE Careers

Collaborations Workshop 2019 (CW19) #CollabW19 2019-04-01 to 2019-04-03 collab_ideas_group_5 - CI10-CW2CC Reporter Sarah Gibson - sgibson@turing.ac.uk Participants Jason M. Gates, Joanna Leng, Catherine Smith, Sarah Gibson, Colin Sauze, Alexander Konovalov Context / Research Domain RSE Careers Problem HERA (Higher Education Role Analysis) is a tool which is used to analyse roles found in Higher Education institutions (see http://www.ecc.ac.uk/about-us/ for further information). They were written about 15 years ago. While there were subsequent changes to REF procedures, and RSEs did not exist at the point they were written, the descriptions stay the same....

2 min · 221 words · Jason M. Gates, Joanna Leng, Catherine Smith, Sarah Gibson, Colin Sauze, Alexander Konovalov
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Running a dugnad in a research group

CW21 - 2021-03-30 Charlie - CI3-CW21 Running a Dugnad in a research group Participants Sarah Gibson Sarah Jaffa Warrick Ball Neil Chue Hong Context / Research Domain Astrophysics (as a pilot for other areas with similar deepset culture issues) Hack Day Demo Problem In astrophysics, there are a lot of self-taught coders who are not being trained in practices that would make their lives easier, including software engineering, using tools like version control, reproducibility for yourself through continuous integration/analysis....

5 min · 889 words · Sarah Gibson, Sarah Jaffa, Warrick Ball, Neil Chue Hong

The Turing Way

CW20 - 2020-03-31 to 2020-04-02 Remote Conferences and Collaboration: The Turing Way - CI5-CW20 Participants Sarah Gibson, Stephan Druskat, Louise Brown, Jurriaan H.Spaaks, Sam Mangham Context / Research Domain Issues on The Turing Way repository Due to the current COVID-19 crisis, remote work has become the default mode of working for most people in research, but it has also been common practice for different people and projects before that. How can we, working remotely, maintain the communities in this mode, and make sure that the community and the people involved in it remain healthy, and productive, and have all the information and technical support they need?...

3 min · 624 words · Sarah Gibson, Stephan Druskat, Louise Brown, Jurriaan H.Spaaks, Sam Mangham